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History of backgammon

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

It is interesting to note how the ever popular backgammon began. This addictive game started about 5000 years ago in Iraq, yes Iraq. It was actually known at Mesopotamia then.

The game has been famous and popular among royalties and egyptian kings and emperors. This was also called ‘Senat’ at some point of time many years ago. The english people took to the game as Backgammon in the 17th century.

In recent years this game has gained even larger interest and is well known across the world. With the invent of the internet and online gaming this game has become one of the most downloaded games on the internet.

Addictions Phases

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Evidently gambling is addictive, and it takes place in phases for most people. This is ofcourse talking about it on the average. These are meant for games like Poker, Blackjack , slots and others not fun games like Bingo. First is the winning phase, normally as beginners luck goes you tend to win small amounts in the start. This phase lasts for a very short amount of time and will charege you up to bet big.

The Chasing phase is the next one where you think you are losing to bad luck more than anything and you keep betting thinking it will get you out of trouble at some point in time.

Desperation creeps in when you keep losing and you get frustrated going all in every single hand (like in Poker)